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The twitterdetails module will now check if the account is set to protected (aka private tweets) and skips trying to parse any tweet statistics. After some consideration, in this case I have decided to leave the error message in the json output. This will allow the (datasploit) user to easily determine that twitter account is actually protected, and not that the account hasn't posted any tweets to date.

Examples

Without Patch

Invoked Through DataSploit

...
[+] Getting information from Twitter
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "datasploit.py", line 112, in <module>
main(sys.argv[1:])
File "datasploit.py", line 68, in main
auto_select_target(single_input, output)
File "datasploit.py", line 107, in auto_select_target
usernameOsint.run(target, output)
File "/opt/datasploit/usernameOsint.py", line 9, in run
osint_runner.run("username", "username", username, output)
File "/opt/datasploit/osint_runner.py", line 28, in run
data = x.main(m_input)
File "/opt/datasploit/username/username_twitterdetails.py", line 106, in main
activitydetails, userdetails = twitterdetails(username)
File "/opt/datasploit/username/username_twitterdetails.py", line 65, in twitterdetails
for tweet in tweepy.Cursor(api.user_timeline, id=username).items(1000):
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tweepy/cursor.py", line 197, in next
self.current_page = self.page_iterator.next()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tweepy/cursor.py", line 108, in next
data = self.method(max_id=self.max_id, parser=RawParser(), *self.args, **self.kargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tweepy/binder.py", line 245, in _call
return method.execute()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tweepy/binder.py", line 229, in execute
raise TweepError(error_msg, resp, api_code=api_error_code)
tweepy.error.TweepError: Twitter error response: status code = 401

Invoked directly

➜ datasploit git:(twitterdetails) ✗ python username/username_twitterdetails.py XXXXX
[+] Getting information from Twitter
Twitter error response: status code = 401
Please provide a username as argument
➜ datasploit git:(twitterdetails) ✗ 

With Patch

Invoked Through DataSploit

...
[+] Getting information from Twitter
Verified Account: XXXXX
Time Zone: XXXXX
Language: XXXXX
Number of Tweets: XXXXX
Geolocation Enabled: XXXXX
Profile Description: User ID: XXXXX
Followers: XXXXX
Following: XXXXX
Profile Set Location: UTC Offset: XXXXX
[!] Account Set to Private
...

Invoked Directly

➜ datasploit git:(twitterdetails) ✗ python username/username_twitterdetails.py XXXXX
[+] Getting information from Twitter
Verified Account: XXXXX
Time Zone: XXXXX
Language: XXXXX
Number of Tweets: XXXXX
Geolocation Enabled: XXXXX
Profile Description: User ID: XXXXX
Followers: XXXXX
Following: XXXXX
Profile Set Location: UTC Offset: XXXXX
[!] Account Set to Private
➜ datasploit git:(twitterdetails) ✗ 

 twitterdetails will now check if the account is set to
protected (aka private tweets) and skips trying to
parse any tweet statistics.
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